Sideswipe

Cup this for a strange promotion (above). The Breast Cancer Research Trust is flogging coffee cup sets based on bra sizes. AA is a little espresso cup, B is a bigger long black cup, C is a cappuccino and D is a latte size. To publicise the offer, the trust is using four known New Zealanders of varying size - model Nicky Watson and her plastic fantastic Ds, talkback host Kerre Woodham and her perky pair of Cs, dancer Candy Lane and her Bs and Shane Cortese representing the AA size. All four are pictured holding the crockery up to their nipples, but Cortese is the only one with his shirt off. Obvious he's the only celebrity whose receptacle is true size.

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More of the strange (but quite cute). The Educational Institute magazine says Botany Downs Kindergarten was given an award by the Ministry of Education for teaching inclusion: "Naturally inclusion extends to pets ... When one rat had babies, the children took them by bus to sell to the pet shop ... Two were kept to be given to neighbouring Dannemora Kindergarten, where the baby rats were welcomed with a powhiri. Correspondence between the two kindergartens about the rats has promoted literacy."

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Last Sunday, NZ Idol judge Ian Stables said he didn't want to hear "anything from the Forrest Gump soundtrack" on the show's rock special. A reader gleefully points out that the soundtrack includes tracks by "Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Jefferson Airplane ... If these don't count as rock bands, gotta question Stables' credibility as a disc jockey".